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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a special live show. | ||
Maybe we'll do more of these. | ||
I was thinking maybe we'll do a live noon thing because it's fun. | ||
I like doing it. | ||
It's just it's hard sometimes. | ||
We have a major scandal. | ||
And it's not, you know, let me just put it this way. | ||
The U.S. government is funding corporate press. | ||
We know this to a certain degree, but the information coming out now is getting very interesting. | ||
Why? | ||
Well, Politico didn't pay their staff. | ||
And everyone's saying, uh, what happened? | ||
Well, according to Max Tanney, staff at Politico didn't get paid. | ||
And they said it was a glitch. | ||
Don't worry, you got paid. | ||
It happens. | ||
It's happened here. | ||
Sometimes there's something at the federal level or the bank level. | ||
And I think, honestly, Politico not paying its staff may just be a glitch. | ||
But this ignited a lot of conversations around USAID and government spending, which resulted in people digging into U.S. spending to find the U.S. government is buying subscriptions to the tunes of tens of millions of dollars to certain news organizations which resulted in people digging into U.S. spending to find the U.S. government Right now, there's a report that Politico received somewhere around 30 some odd million dollars from the U.S. government in subscriptions. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Timcast doesn't get none of those subscriptions. | ||
So what is the view is right now? | ||
What is being seen? | ||
And I started doing some digging as well. | ||
And this is just the surface. | ||
It appears the government is funneling millions of dollars into pro-establishment media under the guise of we're just buying subscriptions, but enterprise level subscriptions. | ||
So let me tell you something. | ||
If you go to TimCast.com and click join us, let me see what we've got going on over here. | ||
Go to TimCast.com. | ||
Become a member of TimCast.com. | ||
Support our work. | ||
If you check out the Green Room, rave reviews on the Mary Morgan, Terry Schilling episode. | ||
If you go to join us, you'll notice that we have a $1,000 a month option. | ||
And I always tell everybody, if you don't ask, the answer's always no. | ||
Now, we don't have any $1,000 a month members, okay? | ||
But it's there. | ||
It's there. | ||
Here's what's happening. | ||
Some of these news organizations apparently have enterprise-level subscriptions that cost tens of thousands of dollars, and the government just has to have it. | ||
Now, who in their right mind is going to pay that much? | ||
Here's how the game is played. | ||
The government justifies premium-level access, which makes no sense. | ||
You know, let me put it another way. | ||
We recently canceled our—we had an internet line. | ||
At one of our locations. | ||
And it costs $3,500 per month for gigabit internet. | ||
The reason was, it didn't exist in the area, so we had to pay to have the lines installed, and then pay a premium to get access. | ||
Which is nuts, because in residential internet, it's like $100 a month for gigabit or less. | ||
So what ends up happening is, when it comes to enterprise-level things, they say you get better service, you don't. | ||
But the government just has to have the premium top tier, which just so happens to be massive sums of money to the tunes of millions to not just Politico, but many other news organizations. | ||
So what we end up seeing over the past several years, it looks like this infrastructure has been crumbling. | ||
You can take a look at who is getting upset about the fracturing of USAID. And, you know, Democrats are holding these hearings to go after Elon Musk. | ||
And it looks like these disinformation experts were being funded by the government to prop up government lies. | ||
And this is just the surface. | ||
When the news broke that Politico was receiving millions of dollars from the U.S. government, I took a look at a couple other news organizations to find in New York Times, NBC, there's others. | ||
Why are they receiving all this money from the government? | ||
Well, it's obvious, isn't it? | ||
They're going to justify it one way or another. | ||
But my friends, it looks like the narrative machine just got smacked in the face. | ||
And everything we've been discussing over the past several years, surface level, is wild. | ||
So we got it. | ||
This is a long story. | ||
There's a lot of information here to break down. | ||
We're going to start with Politico not getting paid, the federal government funding these news outlets. | ||
And then we're going to get into the USAID stuff and the reaction from the disinformation experts who are trying desperately to defend USAID. And it looks like this is just the surface. | ||
Like, this is going to get crazy. | ||
In these next few months, it is going to get absolutely crazy, my friends. | ||
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It was one of my favorite members-only shows that we did. | ||
Basically, as the guests are arriving, we just film everything, and you get these raw, off-the-cuff conversations, and everyone's raving over the Terry Schilling, Mary Morgan episode. | ||
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If we're getting massive, great feedback from people, definitely that's the one we want to promote. | ||
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Because as members, you make all of this possible. | ||
Without you as members, we ain't doing none of this. | ||
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Let me put it this way. | ||
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Because there's going to be something big coming for everybody who is already a member. | ||
There's going to be something big coming. | ||
We think. | ||
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I'll put it this way. | ||
All of the interaction, comments and thumbs up, super chatting. | ||
Let's just say it tells YouTube we really like this show. | ||
And you can also just share the link to this on social media wherever you can. | ||
Word of mouth really helps. | ||
Honestly, I have no idea how it works. | ||
I really just think most shows succeed because YouTube decides to share them. | ||
But maybe the algorithm gods will favor us. | ||
And assuming the morning shows work out, we can expand it and do a live morning show. | ||
I'd love to do live noon every day. | ||
So what I was thinking is record 10 a.m. | ||
segment, record a few 10-minute segments, then do a live hour until 1. And so that way I get the breaking news right at the middle of the day, but you'll still get original segments not in the live show. | ||
So one of the issues is if I go live and I do four stories and then cut those stories out into segments, nobody watches them because they've already seen the live show. | ||
So the goal is unique, five unique segments, one one-hour live. | ||
That's the plan. | ||
And I will also stress that I am still... | ||
Recovering from dental work and it's painful, but I'll do my best. | ||
So let's start here with this tweet from Max Tanney. | ||
He says, staff at Politico did not get paid for the latest pay period. | ||
The company just sent several emails to employees saying it believes there was a technical error and is looking into how to fix the issue. | ||
When I saw this, I said, I don't think this is news. | ||
I don't know why it's being reported. | ||
Companies have payroll issues all the time. | ||
But coinciding with the USAID stuff gets me wondering. | ||
What if the first thing Trump and Elon did was they went in and said, cancel all of our subscriptions? | ||
But we'll take a look at it. | ||
In this email, it says there was a payroll issue, technical error, employees did not receive their paychecks. | ||
Interesting. | ||
Our team is working diligently. | ||
Max Tenney says, political is on a note to staff this afternoon saying it's been resolved. | ||
No big deal, right? | ||
Well, my response was, it'd be funny if after USAID is shuttered, tons of news outlets just go belly up. | ||
Interesting timing. | ||
USAID, to put nearly all staff on leave Friday, oversees missions shuttering. | ||
Let me explain something to you guys. | ||
If USAID provides funding to Activist Incorporated, whatever, and gives them $500,000, and then Activist Incorporated then buys enterprise-level subscriptions from Insert Progressive News Agency, you see how this works. | ||
They can funnel all of this money and create this vast network to manipulate the machine. | ||
Whether intentionally or otherwise, it appears that it's happening. | ||
Not only that, though, outside of USAID, the government itself is doing this. | ||
Yo, it gets crazy. | ||
I'm going to come back to the USAID stuff about firing all the staff. | ||
But first, let's break down the news. | ||
Liz Wheeler says the Politico scandal is worse than you think. | ||
It's not $8 million that Politico received from USAID. It's $34.3 million that Politico has received from various swampy federal government agencies. | ||
Politico is, without a doubt, a totally corrupt propaganda arm of the swamp. | ||
But hold on. | ||
It's not just Politico. | ||
What about literally every other subscription news outlet that lies, cheats, and steals? | ||
Or that claimed that the Hunter Biden laptop was fake? | ||
A question emerged when the story broke. | ||
How is it that a website like Politico, they don't really have a lot of cultural relevance. | ||
They don't have strong advertising. | ||
How do they exist? | ||
It's pretty wild. | ||
We do one of the biggest podcasts in the world. | ||
Two of them, actually. | ||
The Morning Show and Timcast IRL. And we do well. | ||
Don't get me wrong. | ||
But yeah, we have like between 30 and 40 employees. | ||
And it's not easy. | ||
It is hard work all day, every day. | ||
And I think to myself some days, I'm like, man, it is only through brute force that I am here today. | ||
I gotta be honest, you guys. | ||
You know, I started all this with no days off. | ||
We launched Timcast IRL. I was doing 16-hour days Monday through Friday and eight-hour days on the weekends, no days off. | ||
Only recently with family issues. | ||
You know, I shouldn't say family issues, but with wanting to work on my family and everything, have I started to allocate more time towards family? | ||
But it is only through sheer brute force that I am here today. | ||
Despite all the hard work, perhaps it's just that I don't have the character, the personality, not likable enough. | ||
But there are many shows where people do less work and are way bigger. | ||
That's reality. | ||
You know, that's just the way life goes. | ||
And I think about this every day. | ||
How can I be better? | ||
I mean, I got the work ethic. | ||
I'm willing to do 16 hours. | ||
And then I look at some of these other shows and I'm like, man, they're just people like them better. | ||
That's really it. | ||
That's really it. | ||
Maybe nothing you do about it. | ||
Maybe people just say, I don't like Tim Pool. | ||
So when I look at Politico and I'm just like, man, they don't do nothing. | ||
Like we do news. | ||
We had a news team. | ||
We couldn't make money off of it. | ||
We had a news team. | ||
And I got to tell you guys, putting out the stories we did every day, even breaking some big stories, working on field reporting, which we still do to an extent, we could not make it work. | ||
Subscriptions weren't there. | ||
People did not want to be members. | ||
And so I say to myself, if I look directly at you guys and say, we want to do good work, breaking the fake news, reporting the facts, and we need your support. | ||
And even with an attentive, driven and passionate viewer base, we could not maintain this machine. | ||
It was a massive loss for us. | ||
How does Politico do it? | ||
Oh. | ||
The government buys its subscriptions. | ||
And that's okay, right? | ||
We're not funding them. | ||
We don't need congressional approval. | ||
We're just buying subscriptions. | ||
Look at this. | ||
From U.S. Spending.gov, Liz Wheeler posts thirty four point three million dollars. | ||
Damn. | ||
If the government was buying subscriptions to Timcast to the tune of $34.3 million, we'd have a 100-employee newsroom running around reporting on everything. | ||
We'd have overseas documentaries. | ||
We'd have three, four, five documentaries per quarter. | ||
And then what happens? | ||
Government comes to you and says, hey, look. | ||
If you guys are reporting that Trump is good, we're going to have to suspend our subscriptions. | ||
Wink, wink. | ||
Company falls in line. | ||
They know who butters their bread. | ||
And this is where we currently are. | ||
It's crazy. | ||
Now, Adam Townsend had this viral post where he shows they were awarded 8.1. | ||
I don't know what the difference in the numbers are, but I do know that I need only go to usaspending.gov myself. | ||
Take a look at this. | ||
You can all do this right now. | ||
And I want to tell you all right now, here's what you do. | ||
You guys want to get in the game? | ||
You want to change the world? | ||
You don't need to be a member of TimCast.com. | ||
It's appreciated. | ||
It supports what we do. | ||
No, no, no, no. | ||
You go to usaspending.gov. | ||
You click Start Search. | ||
You scroll down and click Recipient. | ||
And you type in the name of news organizations and search for them. | ||
Every single one. | ||
Pull them up. | ||
Guess what? | ||
I searched for TimCast. | ||
Not there. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Yeah, people in the government ain't buying Timcast subscriptions, unfortunately. | ||
I wish they were. | ||
Or maybe I don't. | ||
I'm kidding. | ||
Take a look at this. | ||
Politico LLC, 500 grand, 500 grand, 400 grand, 400 grand, 400 grand, 400 grand, 400 grand. | ||
What is all this? | ||
Politico Pro Subscription, 37-user subscription, Pro Subscription, Pro Enterprise Subscription, Delivery Order. | ||
Look at this. | ||
37 users? | ||
And the total cost was $517,855. | ||
Wow. | ||
That's how you do it, man. | ||
Start a news organization. | ||
Give a wink-wink to the government. | ||
We'll report what you want us to report. | ||
You just got to buy the subscriptions. | ||
And then they can say, well, they're not directly funding. | ||
You know, it's funny because you talk about NPR. We talk about PBS and say the government is directly funding these media organizations and they're liberal. | ||
The left then says no. | ||
They provide funding to an organization which then disperses funding to various news organizations. | ||
We know that. | ||
This is the secret. | ||
This is where it gets a bit more circuitous. | ||
They can just say, look, we need access to this information to do our jobs. | ||
We're buying premium subscriptions because we want access to the news this company makes. | ||
Sure. | ||
Sure you do. | ||
Look, we have subscriptions at Timcast. | ||
I have subscriptions to most major newspapers. | ||
It's like $10. | ||
We have one. | ||
If our employees need to read the news, it's like $10. | ||
How are they dumping hundreds of thousands of dollars for 37 users? | ||
Is it because it's a scam and a way to funnel government money, i.e. | ||
your taxpayer dollars, to the narrative machine? | ||
Indeed, my friends, take a look at this. | ||
What do we pull up here? | ||
The New York Times Company. | ||
You think it stops with just Politico? | ||
USAspending.gov. | ||
Here we can see New York Times Company. | ||
Look at this. | ||
Subscription, subscription, subscriptions. | ||
Now, to be fair, to a certain degree, I would not be surprised if we did have subscriptions to the New York Times. | ||
If you're in office and you expect your staff to read the New York Times without paywall or whatever, sure. | ||
Let's run the math. | ||
What is a subscription to the New York Times cost? | ||
Let me look it up. | ||
NYT subscription. | ||
It might be like $15. | ||
Let's see. | ||
Digital subscriptions for the New York Times. | ||
Is this for real? | ||
$1 a week? | ||
$4 a month? | ||
Okay, hold on. | ||
Hold on. | ||
$4 a month? | ||
Okay, it's $25 a month. | ||
Alright. | ||
So $25 a month. | ||
Sure. | ||
Let's figure out how many government employees they got here. | ||
So it looks like 12,000. | ||
Is that for real? | ||
12,163 government employees must be getting New York Times subscriptions. | ||
Something doesn't seem right about that. | ||
And that's just the first slot. | ||
And then we can say another 4,000 employees, 4,000, 4,000. | ||
Man. | ||
Why do we have 28,000 government employees each with their own subscription in the New York Times? | ||
Something doesn't make sense. | ||
We've been living in a weird, weird world, my friends. | ||
You know, James O'Keefe did that expose where he found on ActBlue some old retiree was spending something like five, ten grand per day donating to Democrats through ActBlue. | ||
And he goes to their house and he's like, did you make 537 transactions today to ActBlue? | ||
And they're like, what? | ||
It's like, well, there's 200,000 transactions, you know, over the month. | ||
And, you know, you can see that it's largely on these days. | ||
It looks like every day you make 30 to 40 transactions, you know, to the tune of 20 bucks. | ||
And they're like, I don't have that kind of money. | ||
So where is that money coming from? | ||
Honest question. | ||
Let me ask you. | ||
Digital newspaper periodical subscription. | ||
For real? | ||
Disaster emergency fund codes. | ||
I don't know what that is. | ||
The DOD. Interesting. | ||
This is really amazing stuff. | ||
Look at this. | ||
The Department of Defense gave $300,000 to the New York Times for subscriptions. | ||
Did they buy a subscription for every single employee? | ||
I don't think you need to do that. | ||
You can get an enterprise subscription, right? | ||
What's going on? | ||
Something interesting, right? | ||
Take a look at this one. | ||
We got Comcast NBC. Now, this one's funny. | ||
Comcast, of course, is Internet service, but Comcast did own MSNBC. I think they sold it off. | ||
So understand this. | ||
This one makes a little bit more sense. | ||
$1.8 million to Comcast of Greater Florida, Georgia, and this is from a contract for the Department of Homeland Security. | ||
You've got the Comcast Corporation getting $1.4 million, and that's coming from the Department of Defense. | ||
Now, you might say, now, hold on, Tim, we understand you gotta buy Internet, right? | ||
You gotta buy Internet. | ||
And if you're the government, you gotta buy Internet, Tim, everybody else. | ||
You mean to tell me it costs that much? | ||
Really? | ||
As I was mentioning early on in this segment, in this live show, we were spending like three grand for Internet. | ||
You might think that's crazy, too. | ||
So I do understand. | ||
I do think it's fair to say some of it may be real. | ||
I don't think it's all nefarious. | ||
But Comcast is ISP. However, you know, a lot of this money gets funneled back into these programs. | ||
The reason I'm highlighting that is to say there's the circuitous and then there's the obvious, right? | ||
The Department of Defense spending $300,000 on New York Times subscriptions is overt and in your face. | ||
I don't see that making sense at all. | ||
I really don't. | ||
The DOD should be able to get one simple, I don't know, man. | ||
I just, it makes no sense. | ||
The DOD itself, itself. | ||
These are not the employees expensing this, or maybe, but then what do we have? | ||
We're talking about 30,000 employees, because look, it keeps going. | ||
It keeps going. | ||
New York Times subscriptions. | ||
Is there a, I wonder what the total is. | ||
Awarding agency, the DOJ is the biggest. | ||
March of 2010 was one of the biggest. | ||
So, oh, you know, I want to make sure I put the dates on this one, too. | ||
It's important because so this is 2024, 2022, 2025. Wow. | ||
They are buying and spending tons of money. | ||
Let's go to Politico. | ||
Let's go to Politico. | ||
The 34 million may be over its lifetime. | ||
The date here. | ||
Ending 2025 September. | ||
So this is a four-year period. | ||
They gave $862,000 to Politico. | ||
The Department of the Interior spent $600,000. | ||
Wait, what? | ||
It's the Department of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service? | ||
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Oh, whoa. | |
Oh, no, no, no. | ||
Wait, wait, wait, wait. | ||
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Whoa, whoa, whoa. | |
I thought it was DOD. No, no, no. | ||
We didn't look at the Politico one. | ||
We're looking at New York Times. | ||
Purchase order for nearly a million dollars from the National Park Service starting 21 until 2025. This is wild stuff. | ||
And that's how these companies are kept afloat. | ||
It is one big scam, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
I don't buy it for a second. | ||
Now, many are going to argue it's not a conspiracy. | ||
It's just the way things are. | ||
Okay, let's break this down. | ||
No conspiracy, no intent to prop up these organizations. | ||
The organizations are propped up. | ||
That's it. | ||
Let's say no one in government did it on purpose. | ||
Let's say there's no one in government who is intentionally like, let's funnel money into these news organizations. | ||
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Okay? | |
They're doing it. | ||
And that is a problem. | ||
I'm wondering what Politico's revenue is and how they're justifying getting $34 million from the government. | ||
34. I don't think it's year over year. | ||
Obviously, some of these expenses are like a four-year contract, but that is wild. | ||
Interesting. | ||
Very interesting stuff. | ||
Sonny Wright says, we do indeed appear to be funneling large sums of tax money to Politico so that some bureaucrats can read left-wing journalists complain about Republicans. | ||
Sure does. | ||
Sure does. | ||
I love the disaster emergency code fun thing. | ||
We have this thread from, let me see if I can pull this up, from Polymath. | ||
He says, I'm not sure what's going on. | ||
Is USAID little more than a grift organization? | ||
I'm skeptical mainly because that's a really comfortable narrative to get people to be okay with nuking it from orbit. | ||
This seems like a reasonable explanation of the Musk strategy for clearing out the corruption brush in the government. | ||
But I'm very skeptical of reasonable explanations like this because they are often used to persuade people like me. | ||
So this is someone saying, It says, have you ever been through the ZBB process? | ||
You basically justify every single expense and you cut a bunch. | ||
The government is going through it right now. | ||
That isn't necessary because spending is out of control, blah, blah, blah. | ||
Let's go back. | ||
He says, I do want to understand what exactly is going on here. | ||
Are we really spending $8 million a year in federal monies on Politico subscriptions? | ||
This seems weird. | ||
And I'm curious what the innocent explanation might be. | ||
I don't think it's per year. | ||
I think it's 8 million is probably over the past couple of years. | ||
Either way, that's a million plus or more per year propping up these organizations directly from government spending. | ||
That's very weird. | ||
Or at the very least, we should say, let's stop. | ||
This shouldn't be the case. | ||
Government bloat is nuts. | ||
Polymath says, something I favor in this process is exposure and transparency. | ||
I want to know exactly what happened to these funds, and I want to see these people explain themselves when they're caught. | ||
Well, let me break it down for you again. | ||
Politico, Inc. | ||
Let me see. | ||
Here we go. | ||
Politico Pro Renewal for 172 subscribers is $400,000. | ||
Wow. | ||
All right. | ||
Let's get the exact numbers. | ||
It's $399,000. | ||
So we'll do $399,000. | ||
That's $2,320 per person. | ||
I just want to pause. | ||
And let's take a look at the date of that one. | ||
172 subs. | ||
And that was 2024. That was December of 2024 for one year. | ||
Holy, holy crap, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
I'm going to stress this again. | ||
$399,000 to Politico LLC for 172 subscribers. | ||
And the purchase order date is December 10th, 2024. Until November 30th, 2025. Which department is that? | ||
The Department of Energy. | ||
That's the Department of Energy who did that. | ||
Holy crap, my friends. | ||
Let me stress this for you one more time. | ||
$2,320 per subscription for one year. | ||
Tell me that's legitimate. | ||
It's not. | ||
There is no way that's real. | ||
There is no way that's real. | ||
That is crazy. | ||
Let me look it up. | ||
Let me look up Politico Pro. | ||
Politico Pro analysis and subscription plans. | ||
Let's throw this down. | ||
Take a look at what we got here. | ||
Plus, Pro analysis. | ||
What do we have? | ||
Lead the conversation. | ||
Chat more. | ||
Interesting. | ||
So they actually don't have, it seems they don't have on their website, the actual pricing. | ||
Doesn't that make it all a bit more interesting? | ||
Learn more about it. | ||
How much does it cost? | ||
All right, let's try this. | ||
Let's ask Grok. | ||
How much does Politico Pro... | ||
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Politico Pro cost per year? | |
And let's see what it says. | ||
Based on the available information, an individual subscription... | ||
Is $3,295 a year. | ||
You can get group memberships up to $8,000. | ||
They have higher tiers. | ||
Politico Pro plus analysis could be $13,000 a year or $11,000. | ||
They give government rates of $2,799 per user per year. | ||
That is nuts. | ||
And I don't buy it for a second. | ||
This is a major scandal. | ||
I am playing these games, dude. | ||
Let's be real. | ||
If you want to create a news organization gathering and distributing information, and then you create a special tier for the government that's ridiculously expensive, I think we know the game being played. | ||
That's how they do it, right? | ||
You know, I know there's a lot of people who are concerned about Citizens United, like unlimited funds in politics. | ||
It's an interesting argument. | ||
The argument was basically that super PACs can spend any money they want because it's their rights, their speech. | ||
And so that was a big Supreme Court ruling. | ||
And there are some that are concerned that this means that, you know, if you're ultra-rich, you can spend $500 million, like Bloomberg did, on running ads to promote other candidates. | ||
But you can't actually—they can't run it. | ||
And there's a concern about all that money being in the machine. | ||
I don't know. | ||
It's a different conversation. | ||
But take a look at what's going on right now. | ||
It's a similar loophole in the system. | ||
The government wants to buy a service. | ||
Here's the difference. | ||
The government is us. | ||
When did we vote for them to spend $400,000 over one year for these subscriptions? | ||
Furthermore, why do they need 172 of them? | ||
Serious question. | ||
I think it's a grift. | ||
We wonder how it is that a website like Politico with no cultural relevance, seriously, they break news and people cite them often. | ||
I'm I'm saying Joe Rogan has cultural relevance. | ||
Politico exists and they break stories and we sometimes read them, despite the fact they contradict themselves and they're basically fake news because they're running two stories. | ||
I love this. | ||
One saying Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election and another saying that that's Russian disinformation, despite the fact they reported it. | ||
Interesting. | ||
How about that? | ||
Well, how about this? | ||
How about Trump say we are not going to allow the Department of Energy to spend four hundred thousand dollars to buy Politico subscriptions? | ||
You can read the news without paying for a three thousand dollar pro package. | ||
Absolutely insane what we are seeing. | ||
But let's take a look at who's mostly perturbed about this. | ||
Mike Benz says the censors are now the ones getting demonetized. | ||
Oh, the irony. | ||
Here's one. | ||
Why is USAID funding Nina Jankiewicz's internet censorship project in London? | ||
Oh, boy. | ||
me. | ||
The Center for Information Resilience. | ||
Are you funded by new governments? | ||
Yes. | ||
We have received grants from the U.K. government, government's foreign commonwealth and development office, the U.S. State Department, U.S. aid and Australia's Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade. | ||
All of the funding was specific projects related to our mission to investigate human rights abuses, war crimes and disinformation. | ||
You know why that's interesting? | ||
Everything? | ||
The Biden admin tried launching Nina Jankowicz's Department DHS Disinformation Board. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Direct government manipulation of information. | ||
Isn't that something? | ||
This failed. | ||
May 18, 2022, we can see it was shut down. | ||
And what happens? | ||
Well, then you get Mike Benz pointing out this lady gets funding for her London Center. | ||
Through USAID. He says, update, the censorship squad is crashing out over losing the USAID taxpayer gravy train that funds their censorship network. | ||
USAID.gov saying on Friday, February 7th, 2025, all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally. | ||
Wow. | ||
Ladies and gentlemen, this is massive. | ||
This changes the game. | ||
These companies with their insane pro-level plans, maybe we should launch one. | ||
How about this? | ||
You know what I'm going to do? | ||
I'm going to launch the TimCast Professional Premier Analysis Package. | ||
$3,000 per year. | ||
And, you know, government only. | ||
And then I'll go ask the Trump administration, you want to buy this? | ||
Could you imagine? | ||
Could you imagine if the government was spending $10 million a year to buy premium Tim Pool news access? | ||
What do you think Democrats would say? | ||
They'd lose their minds. | ||
It'd be a scandal. | ||
Here's the news from CBS. USAID to put nearly all staff on leave Friday. | ||
Overseas missions are shuttering. | ||
They say nearly all staff for the USAID will be placed on leave Friday, the agency announced on its website Tuesday night. | ||
Earlier in the day, all overseas missions for USAID had been ordered to shut down and all staff recalled by Friday. | ||
The statement notes that all direct hire personnel will be placed on leave with exceptions for those on mission critical functions. | ||
The statement notes the agency is developing a plan with the State Department to arrange and pay for return travel within 30 days for USAID personnel posted outside the U.S. | ||
The email states PPC PSC personnel. | ||
I'm sorry, personal service contractor contracts and ISC that are determined to be inessential will be terminated. | ||
It also says they will consider case by case exceptions on Tuesday night, multiple USAID staff, USAID staffers. | ||
You know what's wild? | ||
I was watching The Daily Show the other night. | ||
And there was this woman. | ||
What's her name? | ||
Let me see if I can look up her name. | ||
I think I know her name. | ||
Yeah, it's Desi Lydic. | ||
With all due respect, she seems nice, but she clearly didn't know what she was talking about. | ||
You know, Jon Stewart was good for a long time because it was authentic. | ||
What he was saying sounded like he actually meant it. | ||
No, I'm not trying to drag Desi specifically because it's her and Jordan Clapper and the other people who are doing The Daily Show. | ||
None of them sound like they actually know what they're talking about. | ||
It really does just sound like they're reading a script. | ||
Anyway, I bring this up because, of course, they said that they don't—so it's USAID, not USAID. It is USAID. U.S. agent—because it's not—it is not the United States' aid. | ||
It is the United States' agency. | ||
For international development. | ||
This is not giving food and water to starving children. | ||
I mean, sometimes maybe. | ||
This is funding activist organizations. | ||
This is funding gender studies programs. | ||
This is funding, like, what were they doing? | ||
To spread atheism in Pakistan or something like this? | ||
I don't know. | ||
One was to teach pottery in Morocco. | ||
For real? | ||
That's, I don't know. | ||
Maybe, I'm pretty sure that's what I saw. | ||
On the Daily Show, they said that Elon was trying to gut foreign aid. | ||
That is not what USAID does. | ||
Absolutely nuts. | ||
The manipulation machine. | ||
And the crazy thing about it was that they were saying, is this legal? | ||
And they're making this joke that every time something happened, she asks, is it legal? | ||
And the guy goes, I don't know. | ||
I don't know. | ||
My dude, the way the law works is unless it's explicitly illegal, it's legal. | ||
Democrats are playing this game where they're like, we don't know if it's legal or not. | ||
Well, then clearly it is. | ||
I mean, not literally, but let's just be honest. | ||
If there's no law on the books about any of this, then it's not illegal. | ||
Maybe there are certain things you don't want to do for, like, ethic reasons, and people might complain later, and laws can get passed later. | ||
But imagine right now if they ask—I could ask the same question. | ||
You know, a guy shipped 100 tons of cilantro into New York. | ||
Is that legal? | ||
Is that legal? | ||
Can you do that? | ||
And it's like, it's not illegal, dude. | ||
It's not a question of, is it legal? | ||
It's a question of, is it illegal? | ||
And what Elon Trump are doing and Doge and Rubio is not illegal. | ||
Absolute insane manipulation you get from these machines. | ||
But to be honest, I don't think anybody watches The Daily Show anymore anyway. | ||
So, my friends, you know, look, I think one of the challenges, I would say for me, maybe for a lot of you guys, I think largely for me is, I hope, And I pray for. | ||
The world that I want is we can crack, crack open the narrative, break through the lies, and we have a well-informed population that understands Trump's not perfect. | ||
He's really exceeding our expectations. | ||
I love the guy. | ||
I have never been so excited, you know? | ||
Really turned me around over the past several years. | ||
But I know, I know that, as I mentioned early on in the stream, I don't have the same gravitas as many other personalities. | ||
Certainly I do well. | ||
Don't get me wrong. | ||
I got millions of followers. | ||
It's big. | ||
But I'm not the biggest. | ||
You're never going to take Joe Rogan down. | ||
It's just fun to watch. | ||
Barstool Sports doing those pizza reviews. | ||
Man, it's amazing. | ||
I don't know how Dave does it. | ||
Some people just got it. | ||
And I think to myself, some people just want to watch pizza reviews. | ||
I do too. | ||
Guys, I gotta shout out Dave Porno's pizza. | ||
You've probably seen them. | ||
They're amazing. | ||
I just love watching him review pizza. | ||
It's fun stuff. | ||
I wish we had that kind of feeling for these stories. | ||
I know you do. | ||
I know I do. | ||
Most people do not. | ||
And I don't know what we do about it. | ||
Maybe there's nothing we can do about it. | ||
You know, I find it pretty crazy that when you look at the structures of governance, And war and conflict and crisis, more people care about the Super Bowl than they do about what Elon Musk does. | ||
Go anywhere and ask someone, and they're going to tell you they care more about watching like an Aiden Ross or Kaisenat livestream as opposed to watching Tim Kass talk about Elon Musk. | ||
That's the nature of humans. | ||
It is kind of crazy to think, you know, because people ask about our show and what we do. | ||
You know, what is the why behind it? | ||
And I'm like, what people have said is, in this space, the power and influence wielded in politics and culture is terrifying and tremendous. | ||
In entertainment, you have reach and you have money, but you don't have the same thing. | ||
For instance, if you have a podcast in the political space and you're getting a million views, you know, per week or something, which is like mediums, mid-sized. | ||
You can actually convince the president to do something. | ||
And that changes the world for everybody. | ||
If you're a personality that talks gaming and you get $100 million, let's say $50 million per week, which is big, the president might not even know who you are. | ||
Entertainment-level stuff. | ||
So there's more money there, and it's a balance. | ||
That's the thing about being in the space. | ||
When the left says they're grifters or they're lying, I'm like, my dude, let me tell you. | ||
I would much rather have a gaming channel. | ||
I'll go play Marvel Rivals. | ||
And you know I can talk for 27 years and I can tell you all about the video games and all that stuff and I make way more money, but the passion isn't there. | ||
So what I'm saying is, I guess, how do we, can we, build up that passion around these stories that matter so much? | ||
And to be honest, do we really want it? | ||
You know, I think it's a double-edged sword. | ||
I think the challenge is, for too long, people in this country did not. | ||
We wanted to just relax. | ||
You know, we hit a golden age. | ||
After several generations, we were wealthy. | ||
The 90s were beautiful. | ||
Man, Pizza Hut, Creed, you know what I'm talking about. | ||
And, well, we rested on our laurels. | ||
Maybe not us. | ||
Gen X's are certainly rising up. | ||
Gen X is the reason Trump got elected. | ||
But many people just said, I don't want to think about politics. | ||
So what happened? | ||
The shill establishment, the corrupt entities took over. | ||
And they started saying things like, don't talk about money, religion, or politics at the table. | ||
Why? | ||
Why did they tell you not to do that? | ||
Politics is the structure of our world and whether or not your children survive, whether or not you even have kids. | ||
And they convinced all of us to stop talking about it. | ||
That's crazy to me. | ||
So, as I mentioned, the double-edged sword, when people get hyperactive, I don't mean hyperactive in the sense of running around screaming. | ||
I mean, when they're overly activated politically, revolution comes, especially if there's a bifurcation in the masses. | ||
But I do not believe, as a nation, if we are largely disinterested and focused on sports more than the structure of our world, that leads us to the fourth turning. | ||
That leads us to collapse. | ||
So we have to be responsible and engage in the hard duties and be active and paying attention to what's going on. | ||
Otherwise, the far left takes over. | ||
Our institutions start funneling millions of dollars into propagandistic media outlets, and no one knows. | ||
But today, my friends, this is the administration of activation. | ||
Many people who are default libs are waking up. | ||
And they're finding themselves staring down a corrupt institution. | ||
You know, it's fascinating. | ||
I love this line that Democrats couldn't give Trump one good day. | ||
Not one. | ||
Trump is deporting criminals, rapists and murderers. | ||
The Lake and Riley Act says that if you are an illegal immigrant arrested for a crime, not convicted, we deport you. | ||
We detain and then you get deported. | ||
And Ro Khanna said, but they're not convicted. | ||
And I'm like, what do you mean? | ||
We know they're here illegally. | ||
They get deported. | ||
Even if they didn't commit a crime, they get deported. | ||
Many people started to see this. | ||
And they're saying to themselves, I don't understand why they're yelling at Trump. | ||
He's not doing anything wrong. | ||
Deporting rapists, murderers and cartel members and child traffickers is a good thing. | ||
And the Democrats are coming out and screaming. | ||
It's a bad thing. | ||
Sooner or later, people wake up. | ||
And they're starting to realize if we don't pay attention, these people are coming to our neighborhoods. | ||
It was an ice-cold splash of water for Chicago when all these illegal immigrants started showing up and taking over their schools and community centers. | ||
There's a really sad video out of, I think it was Boston, where a community center was appropriated for illegal immigrants. | ||
And there's this black guy being like, hey, like... | ||
Why are you blocking me? | ||
Why can't I come in? | ||
And I told him, your community center is gone now. | ||
And he loses. | ||
He's like, what do you mean? | ||
He's like, this is where we hang out. | ||
This is where we live. | ||
Could you imagine? | ||
Every Sunday, you and the boys get together for a basketball game. | ||
Nothing crazy, just for fun. | ||
You want to get exercise. | ||
Then one day you show up and the government says, we've taken it over and we've given it to non-citizens. | ||
Illegal immigrants. | ||
You don't get to play basketball with the boys anymore. | ||
Insane. | ||
I mean, COVID was bad enough. | ||
They ripped the nets off. | ||
They put chains over basketball hoops so you couldn't play basketball. | ||
They dumped sand in the Venice skate park so you couldn't skate. | ||
They arrested a guy for surfing by himself in the middle of the ocean. | ||
That's how psychotic these people are. | ||
And that was a wake-up call for so many people. | ||
And now we're seeing it. | ||
Ladies and gentlemen, this is, you know, I saw the quarterings video. | ||
Let me see if I can get the title. | ||
He called it the biggest scandal in U.S. history. | ||
I don't know about that, but this is a tremendous scandal, my friends. | ||
A tremendous scandal. | ||
How do we navigate this stuff? | ||
Look, you know, I said this the other day, and I'll say it again. | ||
The things that Trump is doing, the things that his staff... | ||
Look, man, the stuff Charlie Kirk is doing. | ||
Charlie! | ||
Charlie, buddy. | ||
Coming after the rhino shill Republicans with primary threats and Scott Pressler, I just don't understand how the deep state stands by and watches this all happen. | ||
Now, we've seen the far-left extremists, but maybe, maybe the reality is we've won, largely. | ||
I mean, when you crush the enemy faction in a war, partisans still exist, but the war is over. | ||
You know, Juneteenth. | ||
The reason why Juneteenth exists is because even after the Civil War and the abolishment of slavery, well, I take that back. | ||
Slavery was never abolished. | ||
But the restriction, I would put it on slavery, there were still slaves in Texas. | ||
And so it was, I believe it was marshals, I'm not sure, but the U.S. law enforcement had come down and finally end slavery, even though the war had already ended and they've already determined we're not going to have slavery anymore. | ||
There's some clarifications on that point. | ||
The point being, even after the war ended, the Civil War, They were still fighting. | ||
It's fascinating stuff to read about the surrender when the Confederates gave up and how word doesn't travel. | ||
So you've got Confederate forces being like, for all we know, the war is still happening. | ||
Imagine you're in a fight with someone and they come by and say, hey, no, no, no, we agreed to stop fighting. | ||
You're like, we did? | ||
Tons of stories of like a year or two after Vietnam or whatever, there were dudes in bunkers in forts who didn't know the war ended. | ||
That's wild. | ||
So my point is this. | ||
Those factions, those forces may still be angry and they may still fight, but it may be over. | ||
So when we see Democrats screaming and banging on the table, but it's completely ineffective and Trump is just gutting the deep state. | ||
This might be it. | ||
This might be Donald Trump's march to the sea in that he is going scorched earth on the deep state institutions in such a way they will never recover. | ||
But I don't know. | ||
I don't. | ||
I wish I did. | ||
I wish I did. | ||
Man. | ||
My friends, smash that like button. | ||
Share the show with everyone. | ||
You know, I'd love to, every day, do an hour live from noon to one. | ||
It's a heavy lift. | ||
You know, some days there's so much news, it's very easy. | ||
A big story like this is crazy. | ||
And we have not even scratched the surface. | ||
I'm going to say it again. | ||
Each and every one of you. | ||
Go to USAspending.gov. | ||
You go to the website, start searching awards, you scroll down, go to recipient, and start typing in the names of any news organization, particularly the ones that were trying to put Trump in jail or were lying and we know they were lying. | ||
And then post the results. | ||
We are going to see some crazy stuff once the masses start digging through this. | ||
It's the era of decentralization, my friends. | ||
It's going to be wild. | ||
But yeah, I'd love to get a stream up every day at 1, or I'm sorry, from noon to 1. And then ideally, I think what it might be is four segments, one live, and then I'm trying to do so much, man. | ||
I want to get pre-recorded cultural segments for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. | ||
It's a lot of work. | ||
I'm working as hard as I can. | ||
I will say this. | ||
If you are not a member of TimCast.com right now, I can only say so much. | ||
But go to the green room. | ||
Let me pin. | ||
I think I can pin this. | ||
Am I allowed to do that? | ||
There you go. | ||
I posted it in the chat. | ||
I'm going to pin it to the top. | ||
Pin message. | ||
There you go. | ||
That's the green room show. | ||
And I'm hearing from a ton of people that are like, dude, it's the best members only we've done. | ||
Basically, as I stress. | ||
The guest shows up, and we just start filming as they're hanging out, and it's raw, unfiltered, uncensored, legitimate conversation, no prompting. | ||
Like, Terry showed up and mentioned that he was a good Catholic with a bunch of kids, and Mary started talking to him, and we just recorded it. | ||
And I got hit by a bunch of people being like, dude, that was actually really good. | ||
And so I was like, awesome. | ||
Well, we want to keep doing it. | ||
We want to keep doing it. | ||
And the feedback was so intense that I was like, I'm going to keep promoting this, but let me say this. | ||
Because I can't reveal too much, because I'm trying to be... | ||
We're working on some deals with some big companies. | ||
And I can't say too much. | ||
But there is going to be something very tremendous. | ||
If you are a member of TimCast.com, let me just say you'll get free stuff. | ||
We're working on a really awesome deal. | ||
I'm really excited for it. | ||
I think it's going to make the show way bigger. | ||
I think we're going to take the world by storm. | ||
There's going to be a lot of really cool new projects. | ||
We're looking at doing eight documentaries over the next two years. | ||
Very ambitious. | ||
We're having a bunch of meetings about our expansion and setting up a new studio closer to D.C. A lot of crazy stuff is happening. | ||
And so one of the challenges we have, of course, is we've got members. | ||
We want to deliver more to the members. | ||
So we're negotiating with some companies. | ||
And let me just say it like this. | ||
We're working on some deals. | ||
Let me put it this way. | ||
We've been negotiating ad management sales, right? | ||
So we were with Redseat. | ||
Awesome, awesome guys. | ||
That's who Tucker Carlson is with and Megyn Kelly. | ||
And we ended a renegotiating period. | ||
And these are networks that do ad sales. | ||
And so one of the companies that we're talking to, we've come to an agreement where they're like, we can actually provide a massive benefit to your members. | ||
But it's going to be a grandfathering in, meaning everybody who's a member is going to get some massive benefit. | ||
But after we do the deal, it's just, they're basically like, okay, you got all these members, we're going to grant them. | ||
I can't say too much. | ||
I'm just saying, go to TimCast.com, become a member now. | ||
You will not regret it. | ||
We've got some really, really cool stuff in the works. | ||
And I just, I'm super excited. | ||
We're going to be producing a ton of shows. | ||
We're going to be working on, like, expanding the boonies stuff, the documentary stuff I'm super excited about. | ||
We did two. | ||
One with Lauren Southern, John Dutois, and then we did another on money. | ||
With, who was it? | ||
Was it Ben Stewart? | ||
I hope I'm not getting your name wrong, buddy. | ||
Let me make sure I get his credit right. | ||
Because it's been like a year. | ||
Not Ben Stewart. | ||
What am I? Are you kidding me? | ||
It's not popping up. | ||
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Was it? | |
Am I getting the name wrong? | ||
No, I got it right. | ||
Yeah, it was Ben Stewart. | ||
Yeah, of course. | ||
I knew I got it right, but Google said it was wrong. | ||
No. | ||
He made a great one on money. | ||
We want to do more. | ||
We got a tremendous response from all the documentaries. | ||
So check out The Green Room. | ||
I'm going to read your Super Chats because we still have about 10 minutes. | ||
And then I do have more segments coming up. | ||
So we got another segment coming up at 1 because I had to record it. | ||
I recorded in the morning segments outside of this live. | ||
And I mean, that'll be the ideal circumstance. | ||
But I'll grab your Super Chats and read some of your comments if YouTube lets me. | ||
And then let me just stress. | ||
One more time. | ||
You go to castbrew.com, buy coffee, and become a member at timcast.com because I think maybe in the next week we're going to have a major announcement on what's going on with our memberships, and our existing members are going to get some really cool benefits. | ||
We're doing this thing where after the deal kicks in, there's terms for new members, but we're going to do this big boon of grandfathering everybody in for a bonus. | ||
I can't say too much. | ||
But I think when we're ready to announce what we're working on, then we may actually be able to tell you, sign up today and you will get ABC 123 forever. | ||
And I think people are going to be stoked. | ||
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Dude, I am so excited. | |
Let me just say, you're going to get 10 times the content. | ||
It's nuts. | ||
I can't say too much. | ||
I can't say that. | ||
Let's grab some super chats before we get out of here. | ||
All right. | ||
Freeman Die Free says, Mockingbird on steroids. | ||
CIA has to be abolished. | ||
Yo, Trump offered him a buyout. | ||
Segment coming up. | ||
I recorded on this one already. | ||
Trevin Lane says, I'm shocked, shocked, I say. | ||
Well, not that shocked. | ||
Agreed. | ||
Not that shocked at all. | ||
Jason Nixon says, Can I get a shout out to the Roman nation on Elon's Twitter? | ||
He has built this company from your community. | ||
You see what I'm talking about, man? | ||
Shout out to Roman Nation. | ||
I am humbled, my friends. | ||
So when you become a member at TimCast.com, we have the Discord community where it's, you know, basically it maintains the server and the staff that are running it. | ||
You as a member can call in to our uncensored members only show Monday through Thursday at 10 p.m. | ||
And then from there, people have launched their own show. | ||
So Roman Nation launched out of the Discord and now it's expanding. | ||
They've built up their own show, bro. | ||
Get it, man. | ||
That's the coolest thing ever. | ||
Imagine this. | ||
You become a member at Timcast. | ||
You get in this Discord server where there's tens of thousands of people. | ||
You say, hey guys, I'm going to do a live thing at this time for the members. | ||
And you have all of those people already watching, hanging out, talking to you. | ||
And that's, it's a launching point. | ||
That's what it's all about. | ||
Man, one day, I'm going to retire. | ||
I'm going to die. | ||
Who knows? | ||
And I think about the building that I'm in, that we built this from the ground up, from the dirt. | ||
We had a company come in, put in the steel and everything. | ||
And I thought to myself, what's going to happen to this building in 50 years? | ||
50 years, man. | ||
I mean, maybe I'll be here. | ||
I'll be 88, 89 years old. | ||
But what comes next? | ||
And so everything that I want to build, I want to persist. | ||
I want the good moral values of reason and loyalty, honesty, integrity. | ||
Responsibility, meritocracy. | ||
That's why we want to do the Casper franchises. | ||
That's why it's other people owning them, not me. | ||
I could hire a company and we can say, let's start setting up shops one by one. | ||
That's not what we're doing. | ||
We're saying you own your own Casper. | ||
It is faster. | ||
It is easier in a lot of ways. | ||
But it's not about me owning a thousand locations like Starbucks. | ||
It's about me saying we are building the mechanism by which you can have a piece of this. | ||
The network supports everybody. | ||
It's semi-decentralized. | ||
And we create these hubs for community and culture. | ||
Let's bring it back. | ||
All right. | ||
Let's grab a couple more because I've only got a couple more minutes. | ||
Jonathan Westcott says, at what point would this make news outlets state actors and liable for constitutional violations when they called for silencing opposing views? | ||
It's an honest question, man. | ||
Pablo says, will you be on IRL today? | ||
Yes! | ||
So, I don't want to get too personal. | ||
Let me just say this. | ||
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm married, as you may have noticed, and a baby is on the way. | ||
I couldn't be more excited, and I gotta tell you, I care much more about that than any of this. | ||
So, last night, as we were getting the show ready to go, and I hope you were all prepared. | ||
I'll mention this again on IRL, because I know different people are watching. | ||
As we are getting ready to go live, And I take my picture all smug-looking or whatever and make the thumbnail and we get it up. | ||
You know, family stuff happens. | ||
And I ran so fast out the door that I left my phone in my wallet and Phil picked up the show. | ||
It's gonna happen again. | ||
I guarantee it. | ||
I wonder if people thought that, like, my mouth was messed up or something. | ||
Let me just say, all of you guys, people, you got kids. | ||
You know what I'm talking about. | ||
You know exactly what I'm talking about. | ||
Because we're getting close to that date. | ||
I'm going to have a baby. | ||
And that means that whenever I have to, no matter what happens, it might be 30 minutes into IRL, you just see me look at the wall. | ||
I'll look this way and go, what? | ||
And then I'm gone. | ||
And then it's just Phil walks over and sits down. | ||
It's going to happen. | ||
Maybe it's before the show starts, but it'll happen. | ||
You know, we all good. | ||
Everything's good. | ||
Everything's fine. | ||
No baby yet. | ||
But it's good stuff and it's fun. | ||
And I gotta tell you, you know, like yesterday was crazy with the news about Gaza and all that stuff. | ||
And I was in the zone and we had all the stories pulled up. | ||
And then when I got, you know, I get a phone call, literally nothing else matters. | ||
I just completely forgot about what the news was. | ||
And Phil can pick it up. | ||
You know what I mean? | ||
And the crew is here. | ||
And chat to Natalie Winters. | ||
I didn't even say bye. | ||
But I really appreciate that she came. | ||
And we're lucky, too, because she's great. | ||
And I was not worried at all. | ||
I'm like, we got two great people here. | ||
I can't be. | ||
But it's good stuff. | ||
It's good stuff. | ||
Everything's good. | ||
And we're really excited. | ||
Really excited. | ||
Let's grab a couple more. | ||
We got a few more minutes. | ||
KCB says, Twitter suspends the Babylon Bee, followed by the complete demolition of the deep state. | ||
Who could have imagined? | ||
It's that meme. | ||
Where the little domino and the big domino, and it's like, Twitter bans Babylon B, and the next one is CIA crumbles. | ||
I'm having a good day. | ||
You guys having a good day? | ||
I'm having a good day. | ||
We're really trying to get Mike Benz out. | ||
Mike, if you hear this, man, we gotta get you out here. | ||
I hit him up right away. | ||
This dude knows about the USAID programs and what they're—he's been ripping it to shreds. | ||
And so I told him, come out when he can, man. | ||
Come out when he can. | ||
All right, let's grab a couple more. | ||
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LL says, Tim, bro, take care of your family. | |
We will support you more for running out mid-show than for staying despite family stuff. | ||
I am so happy for you. | ||
Oh, dude, obviously. | ||
I didn't think twice, though. | ||
I don't want to get too personal, but this is our first kid. | ||
Many of you already have multiple kids. | ||
Terry was mentioning he had seven. | ||
So you guys get it. | ||
When you're getting close to that moment, you never know when that moment is going to be when it's like, baby time. | ||
You know, I remember when Shane Cashman has been on the show, he recently had another child, and he was coming to sit third chair, we call it. | ||
And he said, just so you know, I may run out the door at any moment, and I'm like, totally get it. | ||
And so we're about a month away. | ||
About a month away. | ||
And that means it's not likely to happen before then. | ||
But there is still the possibility, and so we have to be able to, on a moment's notice, get out the door, get in that car, and go. | ||
And, you know, head to the hospital and get ready for the baby. | ||
So that's just the way life goes. | ||
But I also, like, obviously, this morning, I was like, could you imagine anyone? | ||
Just name anybody. | ||
Like, if it was me, if it was Crowder, if it was Benny, if it was, you know, Ben or whoever. | ||
And they're literally live, doing their show, being like, oh, by the way, my kid may be being born, but I'm gonna do the news instead. | ||
You'd probably lose every subscriber. | ||
They'd be like, bro, what is wrong with you? | ||
But that's not even on my mind. | ||
The only thing I'm thinking about, I gotta be honest, I talk about Chelsea Handler, how she's gonna be on her deathbed with no family, and it's scary, and I don't mean to be mean to her. | ||
But I'm like, I ain't doing that. | ||
We're going to have a bunch of kids. | ||
I know for you guys watching, I'm going to be 39 soon. | ||
We're getting late in the game. | ||
That's something that happened to millennials, whatever it was for me and for Allison. | ||
We were we were, you know, in our early 30s and we're just like work, work, work, work, work, work, work. | ||
And we started this show and this company, and we did everything. | ||
And at a certain point, we are like, if we don't stop and do this, it's not going to happen. | ||
We have to do it, and we're doing it. | ||
So I recommend you guys do it early and don't wait like I did, like we did. | ||
It's a lesson learned, you know what I mean? | ||
But we're going to wrap it up there, man. | ||
So smash the like button, share the show. | ||
I hope to do these live streams every day because they're great. | ||
They're great. | ||
They're fun. | ||
And I love doing them. | ||
It's a lot easier to do an hour of content live than it is to record an hour and a half. | ||
No joke. | ||
But now this is going to put me at, I think, like two hours for the morning show. | ||
As opposed to the one hour and thirty that I've been doing. | ||
We were trying to do the original essays again. | ||
So we did a week of this at youtube.com slash timcast. | ||
Yo, it's hard work. | ||
And it overwhelmed us. | ||
And I'm like, we'll get to that point. | ||
But with the stuff that we're working on now, I think with this new move we're making, I think it's going to be great. | ||
And we're going to hire more people. | ||
We're going to expand. | ||
A lot of great stuff. | ||
So I really do recommend, if you haven't, you sign up today. | ||
But I think when we announce... | ||
Our next move. | ||
I'll be able to give a grace period of, like, starting tomorrow. | ||
So if you sign up today, you'll get access. | ||
You know what I mean? | ||
I think it'll work out. | ||
I think it'll work out. | ||
But support us. | ||
You can follow me on Instagram at TimCast. | ||
We've got a segment live right now of me. | ||
Go watch it on this channel. | ||
And more to come for the rest of the day. | ||
And then TimCast IRL. Thanks for hanging out. |